“Philippe Coutinho scores the goal of the month. We made one mistake, 1-1.

“We are in promising situations and we don’t score. It won’t stay like this. There will be one day when the mouth opens and maybe we will score more than one time.”

Despite blaming bad luck Klopp admitted his team must improve or fall 10 points behind United, who they host a week on Saturday.

The German said: “We have to play better next game or we won’t get a point.

“We need to work on our thing and I really think it looks like we are not far away from a real challenger. If we do what we are good at then we can score more goals and we will win more games and we don’t have to think about other teams and we will close the gap.

“It is all about our situation, we are not thinking about where the others are.”